All I wanted was this town's respect! But just because these people treated me crummy doesn't mean I'm gonna do the same to them. I'm done with this! I don't care if they've broken the law, you can't treat people like this!
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~ Anne standing up for the Wartwood citizens.
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You know, before I ended up in Amphibia, I didn't care about right and wrong: I just did what was easy, I let people walk all over me. And I think, that's because I didn't love myself, not really. But meeting you three has changed all of that, and these months we spent together has showed me the person I really wanna be. Trap or not, I have to do this!
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~ Anne telling the Plantars how they and the months she spend in Amphibia helped her mature.
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Change can be difficult, but it's how we grow. It can be the hardest thing to realize, that you can't hold on something forever. Sometimes, you have to let it go... But of the things you let go, you'd be surprised what makes its way back to you.
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~ Anne's final monologue at the end of the series.
Anne Savisa Boonchuy is the main protagonist of the Disney Channel animated series Amphibia.
She is a 13-year-old Thai-American girl from Los Angeles, USA, who was transported to the marsh world of Amphibia with her best friends, Sasha and Marcy, after opening the mysterious relic known as the Calamity Box. After arriving, she ends up befriending local anthropomorphic frogs, eventually becoming an honorary member of the Plantar family and best friend to Sprig Plantar. Anne later suffers betrayals from her human friends, but after making it through many obstacles, she became a truly heroic, kind-hearted and brave girl, willing to help others and learn from her mistakes. She represents the Blue Gem of Heart on the Calamity Box.
Although she started off as an anti-hero, having numerous moments of being selfish, mischievous, irresponsible, reckless, jerkish, and stubborn, it was mostly due to being hardly pressured by Sasha and Marcy. After Sprig helped her realize how manipulative and controlling Sasha was, she became kinder and humbler by choosing the frogs over her since her time in Wartwood led her to change her ways as the series progresses. By the time of the series' ending, she subverts all of her corrupting qualities, never showing them again. She also admits that while she made many dumb mistakes, she is willing to make up for them and continue to shape herself by learning from the past.
Although she acted like a jerk to the Plantars on some occasions and endangered them numerous times, this was subverted later on. Anne ultimately cares for her adoptive family's well-being, feeling remorseful over her mistakes, and some of her bad acts were even for the greater good.
While she initially got mad at Sasha for acting as a controlling bully to her for her entire life and at Marcy for selfishly kick-starting the whole series, Anne later forgave them, and their friendship became even stronger than before. She also encouraged Sasha not to be afraid of her old self, saying that it matters who they are now, and particularly sympathized with Marcy despite her actions, as Anne and Sasha agreed that they barely didn't pay much attention to her interests.
While she endangered Wartwood on some occasions, she later became honest to the citizens and was remorseful over her acts.
Background[]
Despite acting irresponsible and disrespectful to her parents at times, she is shown to have loved and cared about them no matter what.
She always kept an eye on Marcy to make sure she didn't get herself in trouble with her clumsy and oblivious nature.
When Sasha made her and Marcy have a party on the school roof, she took the blame for it and got grounded for a month, saving them both from being punished.
Another time, she brought the track team and band geeks together to put on the school dance, and became mediator of the year.
Though she stole the Calamity Box from the thrift store, it is because she was forced by Sasha and Marcy to do so, and she also felt remorseful for said action.
Season 1[]
After hearing about the arrival of a giant mantis, she saved Sprig, whom she originally captured, and even stood up for all of Wartwood to stop the mantis (especially after Sprig selflessly freed her and tried to take on the mantis himself), despite the citizens trying to kill her.
Although she convinced Sprig to sneak away from the house and go to the lake despite it being closed, her pressure wasn't as bad as Sasha's or Marcy's. Also, Anne did it only to make Sprig feel comfortable seeing her as a friend, since he didn't have any friends during that time. When they were attacked by a water snake, she felt remorseful over her stubbornness.
She regretted breaking Hop Pop's cane and tried to find him a new one, but when that failed, she apologized to Hop Pop and was allowed to stay in his home.
She tried to help the Plantars win the annual pot luck by baking a pizza for them.
She saved Hop Pop from being electrocuted by the zapepedes, along with Polly and Sprig, and forgave Hop Pop for using up her phone's battery after he successfully got it recharged.
She tried to convince Hop Pop to accept her, Polly, and Sprig's suggestions, but was able to see when Sprig went too far.
She warned Hop Pop about Sprig's behavior so he could save the farm from him.
She realized how selfish she was when she tried to force Polly to change into something different, and immediately apologized for what she said about her and gave her the encouragement to win the spitting length competition.
She tried to help Sprig and Hop Pop with their respective love interests, Ivy and Sylvia, and apologized when she realized that she pushed for it too hard.
Despite not liking camping, she went on a camping trip with the Plantars because she really liked them and did not want to be left behind by them.
She saved the Plantars from the Mud Men using a bath bomb.
She helped make Stumpy's restaurant a Thai one to save it from being shut down.
In order to earn Wartwood's respect, she wanted to help toads collect taxes, but after seeing their rude ways of doing it, she helped the citizens keep some of their stuff and ultimately fought them to protect Wartwood, even if it means risking herself in the process. This inspired the rest of Wartwood citizens to stand up against the toads as result.
When Wartwood's acting troupe was eaten and theater night was canceled, she provided entertainment with a movie on her phone along with a giant magnifying glass.
She and Hop Pop tried to stop the war between Wartwood's citizens when they became dedicated to Alistair and Hunter from the movie Love Choice.
During a winter outbreak, she agreed to protect Wartwood's citizens from being kidnapped, and later apologized to them for being distracted by the boredom of the job, which nearly caused Polly to be eaten.
She gave the animal that kidnapped the citizens her food, after learning it was doing it to survive itself and to feed its kids.
She tried to help Sprig accept he did not have to be liked by everyone as he tried to get Mrs. Croaker to like him and scolded him when he broke into her home.
Though she combined both baking soda and vinegar to blow up the Dandy Lion Inn, this is justified because the family of bullfrogs were actually cannibals and had to stop them just to survive with the Plantars.
She defeated Tritonio Espada and stopped his train robbery.
She, Polly, and Sprig apologized to Hop Pop for driving him crazy with their mischief.
After she was nominated as "Frog of the Year", she tried to throw a huge party. After seeing that she overdid it, she, along with Mayor Toadstool, saved everyone from the chaos and apologized for failing them.
It is also worth noticing that she mainly did it because Toadstool pressured her to do this (yet he has a point), wanting the citizens to see her as flawless, only to learn that she is good the way she is.
She's also the one who reformed Mayor Toadstool later on.
Once she discovered that the toads plan to kill Hop Pop, she stood up not only for everyone in Wartwood, but also to Sasha, after Sprig helped her realize her bully-like and controlling nature.
After One-Eyed Wally caused Toad Tower to collapse, Anne tried to save Sasha despite all the bad things she had done, and was horrified and devastated when the latter allowed herself to fall to near-death.
Season 2[]
Fearing that the Plantars would leave their house to Chuck, who looked incompetent, Anne secretly tried to build a defense, and felt extreme remorse over temporarily destroying the farm. She was later impressed when Chuck quickly rebuild the house and apologized for doubting him.
She and Sprig apologized to Hop Pop for disobeying him by going to the factory because of how strict his road rules were.
She encouraged Hop Pop to save the Bitties from the Hasselback gang out of heroism.
Though she, Sprig and Hop Pop considered leaving Polly back home under Mrs. Croaker's care because they couldn't stand her, they later apologize for how harsh they were to her.
She and Hop Pop dropped Sprig and Polly off to Quarreler's Pass to make them work together and reconcile.
Once she was reunited with Marcy, she helped her stop the Barbari-Ant invasion and later trusted Marcy to act heroic, letting go of her fear of losing her like Sasha.
While on a treasure hunt, Anne helped numerous citizens, who then saved her and Marcy.
After learning that Priscilla the Killa, a brutish and rude newt, wanted the same teapot that Anne wanted for her mother because it belonged to her late mother, Anne returned it, feeling sorry for her.
She comforted Sprig after she learned about the fate of his mother.
She, Polly and Hop Pop saved Sprig from the stingrays.
She, Sprig, Polly and Hop Pop apologized to the citizens for summoning the Chicka-lisk at Wartwood as they forgot their promise to bring them gifts from Newtopia.
Although she felt betrayed and heartbroken after discovering Hop Pop buried the Calamity Box behind her back, her anger was clearly justified since Hop Pop nearly lost the only thing that could help her, Sasha and Marcy return home (as he ironically repeated her own mistake at the Bizarre Baazar). She later helped Hop Pop save Sprig and Polly and forgave and comforted Hop Pop after learning the motivation of his lie.
Though she and Hop Pop argued during the first temple, they later made up after the game of flip-wart.
She, Sprig, Polly and Hop Pop helped Marcy gain her respect from the Wartwood citizens.
When Marcy and Sasha recharged the Calamity Gems. Anne herself not only supported the duo, but herself passed all the trials of the second temple, by not only being kind-hearted and selfless, but also responsible. Anne gave up her coat to distract the cardinal, risked her life to save someone (only for them to not be here), and even saved Valeriana after she pointed out every mistake Anne made. She also left the temple before the Blue Gem was fully charged, believing that her friends were in danger. Even during her temple, when she rants to Valeriana and calls her a “cruel judgmental snob”, this is justified because Valeriana attempted to leave the group out in the cold.
She, Sprig, Polly and Hop Pop helped Mayor Toadstool to sabotage his chance of becoming a leader of Toad Tower, as he really wanted to stay in Wartwood.
She rallied her allies to liberate Newtopia from the Toad Army, while personally stopping the main forces from reaching the city. This is before they found out Andrias' true nature.
While Anne wanted nothing to do with Sasha, ended their friendship, vengefully attacked her in the tower and stubbornly refused to listen to her, Anne's anger was reasonable for Sasha once again betraying her and also nearly separating her from the Plantars against her choice. After Andrias revealed his true nature, Anne later showed remorse over this and later made up with Sasha, so this only counts as a Heating-up Period.
When Marcy was revealed to have gotten her and Sasha stranded in Amphibia intentionally, due to being afraid of having to move away when her father had gotten a new job, Anne showed no anger towards Marcy and, instead of looking heartbroken over Marcy's betrayal and selfishness.
Despite being upset with Sasha and Marcy's betrayals, Anne was the only one not to be on the brink of giving up and encouraged her friends and former enemies to fight the evil king.
While she vengefully attacked Andrias when she used her powers for the first time, this is understandable as she thought he killed Sprig, and she calmed down when she found out he was alive.
When escaping to Earth with the Plantars, Anne tried to get Marcy to jump into the portal with her and looked shocked when she was stabbed by Andrias, showing she still cared about Marcy despite her selfishly stranding her and Sasha in Amphibia in the first place.
Season 3[]
Despite Anne keeping Andrias' invasion and her friends' betrayal as a secret from her parents, it is well-intentioned, as her parents had already been worried sick over her disappearance, and also did this with a lot of guilt. Once they discovered this, Anne remorsefully told them that she did this not only to protect them, but the Plantars, and apologized for that.
Although she didn't support some of the Plantars' wishes on Earth, it was because they needed to hide their identities as talking frogs.
Her entry about how she managed to reunite with her friends in her journal indirectly led to Sasha not only redeeming herself, but swearing to protect the Wartwood citizens and leading a resistance against King Andrias.
She, Sprig and Hop Pop told Polly to be patient for getting Frobo back to life until they returned to Amphibia.
She, Sprig and Hop Pop went to save Polly from reaching to the sky along with Frobo.
She, Sprig, Polly, Hop Pop and her parents defeated Cloak-Bot together, while using her calamity powers to kick him into space to prevent it from self-destructing.
Her heroism inspired her parents to do the same as she did.
She saved the Plantars from being dissected by Dr. Frakes.
During Christmas, she, with help from the Plantars' new friends on Earth, built a Christmas float to join the parade, much to her mother's surprise and pleasure. Later on, she thanked Sprig for his gift to her, and secretly wrote letters to the Waybrights and Wus, promising to save their respective daughters.
With her Earth allies, she saved the Plantars from the FBI before returning to Amphibia, while also thanking her parents for their support.
After returning, she became co-leader of the Wartwood Resistance with Sasha, fighting Andrias' forces and even recruiting some of her old enemies. Anne also encouraged Sasha to be a leader too, saying that she truly changed and deserved the rank.
When Sasha reminded how her control freak tendencies ruined their friendship, she began to reflect over how unfaithful and stubborn she was to her during the events of "True Colors", and decided to sacrifice herself to be swallowed by a mind-controlled snake to put her faith in her, allowing Sasha to retake her rank later on.
She, Sprig, Polly, Hop Pop and Sasha freed Olivia and Yunan from being controlled by mind-controlling collars.
When she returned to Earth, she defeated King Andrias in a duel and saved Earth, Amphibia and the rest of the multiverse from his invasion. During the battle, she revealed that she pitied Andrias for allowing the Core to groom him into a monster, and while she badly damaged his cybernetic implants, it was unintentional, as Andrias stopped attacking too early for Anne to react.
Once Sasha freed Marcy from the Core's control, she forgave her and told her that no matter what would happen, their friendship would last forever.
After returning to Amphibia, Anne, Sasha and Marcy empowered themselves with the Calamity Gems to destroy the Core during its spiteful attempt to ram Amphibia's moon into the surface with the intention of destroying all life on it, while also taking the risk of being stuck in Amphibia forever. When things got worse, Anne empowered herself with all three stones and destroyed the Core for good, losing her life in the process, but not before comforting Sprig.
Upon being brought to the Guardian's dimension, she humbly refused the Guardian's offer to become the next Guardian, saying that she's still a teenager and has to learn many things (but also indirectly agreed to become the next Guardian).
Following her return to the living world and revival, she, along with Sasha and Marcy, said a final farewell to their friends in Amphibia. During this time, Anne wished the Plantars the best, and even gave her phone to Sprig as a memento.
After becoming a herpetologist, she created an entire whole amphibian exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific, making a small version of Amphibia in honor of her friends and the adventures she shared with them.
After her passing at age 91, she presumably take's the Guardians role as the Multiversal watcher and protecter, allowing them to finally retire and take a break, and while doing this job she will presumably look after the entire multiverse, Amphibia included and ensure no threats like the core can arise ever again.
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